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He was born in Kashkar in Persia around 492.
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Abraham Kashkar
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He left there to preach the Gospel at First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hirah, leaving there to study monastic life at Scetes. Some held the view that only a life of celibacy could lead to salvation. Initially, all monks and nuns were hermits, but in about 350 March Awgin founded the first cenobitic monastery of Mesopotamia on Mount Izla above the city Nisibis, patterned upon the Egyptian model.
Soon there were many monasteries.
The decision severely weakened the church. The decision was reverted in 553.
In 571 Abraham founded and governed a new monastery on Mountain. Izla. This became the famous monastery called the "Great Convent".
The rules he established in 571 were published with those of Dadisko, his successor (588-604).
Abraham died in 586. The third abbot of this monastery was his student Babai the Great (551–628), who succeeded March Dadisho. Born to a family of humble means,
Abraham"s feast day is celebrated on the 6th Friday after Epiphany.
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Religion
Christianity Assyrian Church Of The East